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Can the US leave Afghanistan with dignity, or will it try to win a lost battle with the same tactics that got it and the world into the mess that we are in. US faces ignominious defeat in Afghanistan because it ignored Pakistani advice

As the NATO summit deadline approaches, the American Afghan strategy is being finalized. The bluster of the previous years has been replaced by a lot of emphasis on non-military approaches. Obama must avoid creating a backlash in neighboring Pakistan by heavy-handed U.S. military intervention there: David Kilcullen

Pakistan was left to cater to the mess created by the US during the first Afghan war, and will have to deal with the mess created by the Bush Administration during the 2nd Afghan war. Hindu Kush Curtain Call: The End Game in Afghanistan

Why the surge in Afghanistan is doomed to failure?. The American public is now getting tired of the war in Afghanistan. More than 40% of Americans now oppose the war in Afghanistan and think that this was a mistake. Will this anti-war movement translate into a candidate that can bring the troops back from Afghanistan, or will it fizzle out?

Peace: Top 10 reasons for ending the war in Afghanistan & recommendations. Of course the Neocons are still trying to rationalize all the wars by using the usual tactics of fear and bigotry.

 Justifying the Banality of a brutal Occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan: The Thinktanks attempt to complete the circle of complicity between a sycophantic press, and a non-inquisitive servile public. The nation is forced to accept the only argument that it is being repeatedly inundated with When Freedom fighters turn terrorist 

Selective Amnesia of Americans: Pakistan is the most mistreated friend in the world 

Obama’s new strategy as confused as Bush’s was inept 

Brigadier Asif Haroon Raja has written a prodigiously insightful article in which he defines the blunders of the US Administration and focuses on an honorable exit strategy for the Americans. Raja’s article begins with a history of the war in Afghanistan and then discusses the various forces at play. “NATO is in Afghanistan to contain China”: NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Schaffer

Ahmed Rashid, Bruce Reidel, David Weinbaum, all advisors to President Brack Obama– have also discussed  similar ideas albeit Raja’s profoundly effulgent ideas stand out as more comprehensive and more detailed. The broad strokes of Ralph Peters are replaced by detailed accounts and events which should help all of us in comprehending the new strategies being discussed. Fixing Afpak: Inability to define exit strategy spells inevitable US military catastrophe in Kabul

The ten-year US sponsored proxy war in Afghanistan gifted Pakistan with serious social problems including Kalashnikov and drug cultures as well as sectarianism and religious extremism. After achieving their objective, the US ditched Pakistan by imposing draconian sanctions on it and left Afghanistan in indecent haste without providing assistance for reconstruction, rehabilitation of refugees. Germany and Japan after 2nd World War, or South Korea and Vietnam were rebuilt by USA. Instead of rebuilding devastated Afghanistan, USA directed its resources towards re-integration and uplift of Europe. As a consequence, Afghanistan sank into whirlpool of internecine war for a long time till it was stabilized by the Taliban in 1996. The country was once again pushed into the inferno of instability when USA and its allies invaded Afghanistan. Asif Haroon Raja is a retired Brig and a security and defence analyst based in Rawalpindi. - Asian Tribune -

Betrayals, blackmail in Bakiyev cloaking failure as success hiding the defeat declaring victory withdrawing from Afghanistan within 12 months. Recently Tariq Ali also discussed the background of the Afghan war and has brilliantly listed them in his latest book titled “The Duel“. Tariq Ali, the British intellectual of Pakistani origins has clearly stated that the attack on Afghanistan had less to do with humanizing the Afghans then it had to do with the containing China. Tariq Ali argues that the Taliban were ready to divorce themselves from any actions of the Al-Qaeda which attacked the civilians in New York. The Taliban just wanted proof of the attacks. Riding high on the horse of hubris the Bush Administration responded with their now famous threat “You are with us or against us”. This put the Taliban in the “Against us” category, even though they were not against the US at the time. There was an ocean of goodwill towards America because of its positive role in the First Afghan War against the USSR. Instead of capitalizing on that goodwill, the Bush Administration dissipated it using Daisycutters and Drones. Today that goodwill and love of America has been replaced with hatred and Anti-Americanism. Obama’s sane policy: Negotating with the Taliban

USA had numerous viable options to get hold of Osama and incapacitate Al-Qaeda but Bush opted for war against Afghanistan which had not played any role in 9/11 incident. Illegal and unjust removal of Taliban regime from power in November 2001 by foreign forces followed by persecution of Pashtun and patronage of non-Pashtun elements gave rise to militancy in Afghanistan which spilled into Pakistan. 2.8 million Afghan refugees still residing in Pakistan act as a ready made stock for use by foreign agencies for subversion and terrorism in Pakistan. After devastating Afghanistan, USA converted it into biggest den of subversion in the region. Overjoyed by its quick victory, USA further accentuated its madness by invading Iraq and projecting Al-Qaeda as a Frankenstein monster. Afghanistan based Al-Qaeda, whose objective was to overthrow regimes in Saudi Arabia and Egypt allied with USA, turned its guns against USA and got converted into an international organisation. Bush and his team did not realize that other than the communist insurgency in Malaysia (1948-1960) that was controlled by the British, all other counter insurgency operations failed using instrument of military power alone.

Another folly committed by USA after occupying Afghanistan was to virtually condemn 13 million Afghan Pashtuns after demonizing them as Taliban linked with Al-Qaeda. They didn’t understand that the Pashtuns in Afghanistan led by Taliban had the moral right to rule the country because of their demographic superiority. Having neglected the Pashtuns the Americans started to consolidate their power base in Kabul and ignored southern Afghanistan which forms almost half of the country and is the heartland of Pashtuns.

The Americans did not take into consideration that it was natural for 22 million Pashtuns in Pakistan with majority living in FATA, NWFP, eastern Baluchistan and Karachi had sympathies towards Afghan Pashtuns because of ideological, cultural and linguistic commonalities. Those living in seven tribal agencies of FATA attached with Afghanistan have blood relations with the Pashtuns residing in southern and southeastern Afghanistan and both frequent each other. The Durand line was drawn by the British in 19th century arbitrarily suiting the Great game played by USSR-UK, which resulted in division of villages and tribes. The 2640 km long porous nature of Pak-Afghan border can not be sealed to prevent cross border movement. Nearly100,000 cross the border from both sides daily. Brutal persecution of the Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan acted as a catalyst to further bond the Afghan-Pak Pashtuns together. Both view USA as common enemy and secular Pakistan and Afghan armies as mercenaries hired by USA to kill them. The liberal and westernized Pashtuns in both the neighboring countries residing in urban areas are in small minority. They interpret jihad in their own way and decry resistance to the foreign occupation but have little say and stand marginalised.

It is ironic that illegal occupation of Afghanistan since November 2001 and killings of tens of thousands of Afghan civilians doesn’t prick the conscience of USA. It wants all the Afghans to accept occupation of their country by foreign troops without a whimper and also accept its appointed stooge as their head of state. All those who resent and resist occupation and dehumanization of their lands and lives are dubbed as irreconcilable and terrorists deserving no mercy. It wants the Afghan society to get rid of its medieval culture and religious fanaticism and adopt modernism and secularism and US doctored democracy. However, after lapse of over seven years, the plight of Afghans has gone from bad to worse. All sorts of vices that the Taliban had eliminated during their short rule have reappeared and poppy growing has crossed all previous records.

Unpopular Hamid Karzai guided by India has been crying hoarse that Pakistan is indulging in cross border terrorism against Afghanistan. Throughout insurgency in Baluchistan in 1970s, Afghanistan not only provided safe haven to the runaways but its KHAD in collaboration with KGB and RAW assisted the rebels. Afghanistan has also laid claims over territories of Pakistan and raised the bogey of Pakhtunistan. Even now it is actively engaged in sabotage and subversion activities against Pakistan and has allowed full liberty to RAW to undertake covert operations against Pakistan. So on what moral grounds it makes wild accusations against Pakistan? Asif Haroon Raja is a retired Brig and a security and defence analyst based in Rawalpindi. - Asian Tribune -

Justifying the Banality of a brutal Occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan: The Thinktanks attempt to complete the circle of complicity between a sycophantic press, and a non-inquisitive servile public. The nation is forced to accept the only argument that it is being repeatedly inundated with When Freedom fighters turn terrorist 

Selective Amnesia of Americans: Pakistan is the most mistreated friend in the world 

Obama’s new strategy as confused as Bush’s was inept 

We have often written about the folly of rejecting the Pakistani advice by America in 2001. However the sane advice was trampled over by American tanks that wanted to prove to the world that it was not a paper tiger. This desire to dump the legacy of Vietnam has cost America its reputation and bankrupted the country to the brink of disaster. Convincing the US tin ear of the Pakistani point of view

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The pennies offered to Pakistan pale in comparison to the 605 Billion given to Iraq and 143 Billion wasted in Afghanistan. However when one hears the pundits only the $5 Billion given to Pakistan is mentioned (an exaggerated to $10 Billion, even though $5 Billion was the partial reimbursement for services provided). Turkey was offered 38 Billion to bomb Iraq (which it turned down) and Egypt’s external debt of about $40 Billion was waived in the peace deal with Israel. The Marshall Plan for Europe and Japan built them up as huge manufacturing powerhouses. Brzezinski: Don’t start new wars. Use diplomacy in Pakistan 

US Administration joined by Karzai regime holds Pakistan responsible for deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan. They say that the army, Frontier Corps and ISI are in league with the Taliban and facilitating their movement across the border to hit US-NATO targets. Such wild allegations are being hurled since 2005. Former Bush Administration lent its ears to grumbling Karzai and assured him that complaints made by him will be fully investigated to get to the bottom of his charges. Ironically when Bush was presented foolproof evidence of involvement of RAW and RAM in Baluchistan in March 2006 during his visit to Islamabad he evinced no interest and looked the other way. Rather, he lectured Musharraf to step up efforts to eliminate extremism and terrorism within FATA. Thereon, do more mantra was continuously repeated to keep Pakistan under pressure. Asif Haroon Raja is a retired Brig and a security and defence analyst based in Rawalpindi. - Asian Tribune -

Raja describes the interference of American in detail with specific dates and locations.

From mid 2007 onwards, USA started to exhibit its urge to step into FATA to nab top leaders of Al-Qaeda including the most wanted man Osama and to destroy the sanctuaries of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. This demand got accelerated after June last year when Taliban militant activity and casualty rate of foreign troops in Afghanistan got intensified. Suicide attack on Indian embassy in Kabul further infuriated US military. Karzai as a mouthpiece of USA and India leveled unsubstantiated wild accusation that the ISI was involved in the attack. Without proving their allegations, both India and Afghanistan suspended talks with Pakistan in a synchronized move. Pakistan was singled out and demonized under a calculated program. USA joined the duo in admonishing and warning Pakistan. While leveling allegations the trio turned a blind eye to the subversive activities of CIA, RAW and RAM and that of leadership of a terrorist group BLA based in Helmand since 2003.

On 10 June 2008, US military carried out an unprovoked deadly air strike on a security post at Gora Prai in Mohmand Agency which left 11 Pakistani security persons dead including one officer and six civilians. Laser-guided bombs were dropped during repeated attacks that destroyed seven of nine bunkers. On July 10, Nato planes bombed Angoor Adda town in South Waziristan Agency injuring 20 people including nine soldiers. On 15 July, 30 rounds of mortar were fired from Paktika at Angoor Adda. On 4 September, a helicopter borne US marine force attacked a village in Angoor Adda. This was followed up by several unprovoked mortar and artillery shelling from across the border. These aggressive acts were in addition to drone attacks which have killed hundreds of innocent civilians in Waziristan.

USA fails to realize that but for Pakistan’s full cooperation and assistance in the form of provision of logistics, intelligence and military bases, and 70,000 troops deployed along its western border in October 2001; Afghanistan would have become a hard nut to crack. With withdrawal and reinforcement routes from Pakistan open, American troops and its allies would have spent much more time and resources and suffered huge casualties to defeat the Taliban. USA and Karzai remain ungrateful to Pakistan for its role played by it in not only facilitating occupation of Afghanistan easily but holding on to it for so many years and in reconstruction of war devastated country. Over 120,000 troops are employed in FATA and 900 check posts established along the Pak-Afghan border to check infiltration. While USA has lost about 700 soldiers in counter insurgency operations in Afghanistan, Pakistan army has lost over 1500 with injuries to thousands in fighting its own people. The price paid by Pakistan to fight US dictated war on terror in terms of social and security consequences is colossal. It is suffering the backlash of militants in the form of insurgency in FATA, Swat and Baluchistan and suicide attacks in all parts of Pakistan. All these areas were peaceful but were deliberately made volatile after 2003. As against $10 billion assistance given to Pakistan for maintenance of troops employed in FATA to fight US war on terror, which USA is now grudging, Pakistan lost over $35 billion dollars. Having made Afghanistan anarchic, USA is blaming Pakistan for its failings and poor performance. Asif Haroon Raja is a retired Brig and a security and defence analyst based in Rawalpindi. - Asian Tribune -

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The American defeat in Afghanistan is not a matter of conjecture. President Obama as well as John McCain have already admitted to the deteriorating condition. What perplexes them is how cave dwellers could challenge and defeat a superpower. istory will not judge President Bush kindly. He destroyed the US miliatary and bankrupted the country–all within eight years.

George Bush utterly failed to achieve any of the stated objectives. Instead of making homeland safe he made USA and the world more insecure. Extremism instead of getting eliminated has spread worldwide and has spun out of control. US forces have got badly stuck in the quagmires of Afghanistan and Iraq with little hope of their retrieval in the foreseeable future. 4300 US soldiers in Iraq and 700 in Afghanistan have died and thousands injured fighting futile war on terror. Both the countries still under occupation of US troops have become volcanoes which have frightening ramifications for world security. USA has come under massive national debt of $10 trillion. Iran is firmly in the saddle and pursuing its nuclear program defiantly. It is covertly supporting resistance forces in Iraq, Hezbollah and Hamas and openly criticizes Israeli aggressive policies in the region. Hamas has become a living reality and a force to reckon with as was amply demonstrated during the last Gaza invasion by Israeli troops and Mahmud Abbas has got reduced to a non-entity. Hezbollah not only roundly defeated the Israeli forces when they invaded Lebanon in 2006, it has emerged as the most influential and popular entity in Lebanon.

Syria is anti-US and allied to Iran and is covertly supporting resistance forces in Iraq. An attack by US helicopters on a farm in eastern Syria, killing eight people was vehemently denounced by Syrian government and series of retaliatory measures were undertaken in protest. These included removal of Syrian troops from Iraq border, street protests, closure of US cultural centre and US school. The US was asked to apologize and give compensation to the victims of attack. There are 1..5 million displaced Iraqis in Syria housed in refugee camps sine March 2003. Under the patronage of US military, militant camps are in existence where Iraqi refugees are recruited and trained. They are infiltrated into Iraq to provide real-time intelligence to US military in Iraq and carryout covert operations to break Iraqi resistance. In addition, Iraqi Sunnis in Al-Anbar province were armed to fight Al-Qaeda. It resulted in arrest of thousands of resistance fighters and several high-value targets and enabled US forces to mellow down militancy in Iraq, but insurgency is far from over.

North Korea is still on a defiant path and its nuclear tipped missiles can reach USA. Russia has become assertive and aggressive and large part of Europe is heavily dependent upon Russian gas and oil. China poses major challenge to USA because of its growing economic strength. South American states led by Cuba and Venezuela stand defiant to US belligerence and most have forged close ties with China and Russia. Baluchistan and NWFP provinces as well as the northwestern tribal belt in Pakistan are up in arms because of foreign meddlesome role where anti-Americanism has peaked. Trust-deficit between USA and Pakistan has widened, both suspecting the other of playing a double game. This trust-deficit has also cropped up in Afghanistan where USA found evidence of collusion between district police chief and Taliban in eastern Afghanistan in Wanat village which caused worst single loss for American military. It underscored the vulnerability of US forces in Afghanistan which USA intends to convert into a permanent military base. US forces should exit from Afghanistan honorably  Tue, 2009-03-17 02:34, By Asif Haroon Raja. Asif Haroon Raja is a retired Brig and a security and defence analyst based in Rawalpindi. - Asian Tribune -

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The US media has ignored the will of the Pakistani people and instead tried to manipulate the internal systems to what it thinks is an advantage to America. In fact by intrusive interference it has actually harmed itself more.

In October 2008, Pakistan Parliament in a joint session had unanimously passed 14-point resolution declaring that drone and ground attacks by US-Nato forces were unacceptable and called for review of anti-terror policy. US pressure forced Zardari led regime to ignore the resolution and recommence US dictated policy of use of force.. Peace deals inked with militants in FATA and Swat did not suit USA. Robert Gates bluntly remarked that peace deals had increased violence in eastern Afghanistan. Drone attacks by CIA are meant to fuel militancy and sabotage peace accords. The US, UK, France, EU and India expressed great anxiety over the peace deal in Swat on 17 February saying that it would mark a setback to girls education and women rights. It was projected as capitulation to the militants. The International Crisis Group think tank (ICG) has strongly recommended that Nizam-e-Adl Regulation Order 2009 for Malakand Division must not be signed by Zardari and that Pakistan must refrain from entering into similar peace deals with militants elsewhere. They misconstrue dialogue leading to peace deal as surrender and fail to understand that dialogue takes place only when both the warring parties voluntarily agree to sit across the table and talk. Both sides set aside confrontational posture and adopt policy of give and take. This is in fact a huge step forward which breaks the ice and help in arriving at mutually acceptable arrangement and puts an end to bloodshed.

In the face of barrage of criticism, USA rationalizes its aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq as compulsory acts to ensure security of homeland. It also takes cover behind UN Article 51. It will invoke same Article for its intended offensive against Pakistan on the plea that it is allowing its soil for breeding terrorism and exporting into Afghanistan to cause harm to US-NATO forces.

Obama has vowed to step up fight against terrorism and is in an upbeat mood about a new strategy being framed to defeat extremists in Afghanistan-Pakistan. USA has planned to shift 17000 US troops from Iraq to Afghanistan and by end 2009, another 13000 would be inducted to control insurgency. Induction of 150,000 Indian troops in Afghanistan by end 2009 is also in the offing. ICG has advised Obama to send clear signals to the Pakistani military that there will be a very heavy price to pay for tacit or explicit support for Jihadis. A new policy has been formulated to encircle the hotspots of resistance in Afghanistan and Pakistan, isolate the incorrigibles which in their view are not more than 5%, win over the reconcilable (75%) and fence sitters (20%) who are with the Taliban to gain monetary benefits only, establish armed village defence militias, complete troop surge by shifting forces from Iraq to Afghanistan and by end 2009 launch a coordinated operation to eliminate the irreconcilable. Socio-politico-economic uplift programs are to be expedited.

The US policy makers and think tanks ignore the fact that 72% of Afghanistan now has a permanent Taliban presence – up by 54% a year ago. Taliban forces have advanced from the southern heartlands, where they are now defacto governing power in a number of towns and villages, to western and north-western provinces, as well as provinces north of Kabul. Within a year, Taliban presence has increased to startling 18%. This upsurge of Taliban could not have been possible without local support. Why should the so-called reconcilable and neutral Afghans side with the losing side and that too for a wrong cause? The Brussels based ICG is not altogether right in assessing that the Taliban do not have significant public support. No doubt the people in Afghanistan are tired of war, but they blame foreign troops and not the Taliban for their misfortunes. They want occupation forces to leave and let them handle the situation themselves. US forces should exit from Afghanistan honorably  Tue, 2009-03-17 02:34, By Asif Haroon Raja. Asif Haroon Raja is a retired Brig and a security and defence analyst based in Rawalpindi. - Asian Tribune -

US AfPak policy review results mimic Chinese demads given to Hillary Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. ~Abraham Lincoln In 1821 The Taliban was a construct of the CIA and was armed by the CIA:–Congressman Dana RohrabacherObama’s Vietnam & Cambodiazation of the Afghan war Solutions to “Obama’s Vietnam”

In guerilla war, the guerrillas do not aim at winning battles; their strategy is to keep resisting and prolonging war of attrition to bleed the adversary much superior in men and material, tire him, exhaust him, financially drain him and frustrate him to leave. What they need is not to indulge in pitched battles, but to pin prick the enemy through various means without getting exposed. They hit when the enemy is vulnerable and least expects; hide when he is strong. They live off the land and remain free of logistic tail and have safe areas for withdrawal. The Taliban is a disparate network of groups, but still potent and command the respect and cooperation of the masses. The Islamic resistance forces apart from fighting US and NATO military might are also battling Muslim secular military from within. They are successfully denying the sole super power unchallenged global supremacy.

The US think tanks have belatedly begun to realize that Afghan crisis is the outcome of decades of internal conflict and that short term solution will not resolve the crisis. It is now being suggested that Jihadi influence cannot be defeated or neutralized unless Obama administration adopts new political, economic and military policies to empower Afghan civilian institutions. Obama has been advised not to leave matters entirely in the hands of US military that have messed up things and that he should reassert authority of civilian institutions in Washington. I reckon, other than the US military, trio of CIA-RAW-Mossad based in Kabul promoting drug trade and covert operations are principally responsible for dirtying the whole atmosphere in Afghanistan and Pakistan and unless these are reined in no fruitful results can be achieved.

If someone has any notions that USA would save Pakistan and Afghanistan from sinking he should have his head examined. American troops barged into Afghanistan not to make it democratic and prosperous but to misuse it as a transit ground for transporting mineral resources from Central Asia to the west and to denuclearize Pakistan. American leadership and its allies are happy with bloodletting and want more of it; peace worries and discomfits them since they fear that it allows resistance forces to refit and regroup to fight occupation forces. So much so that they lose temper and resort to bullying and use stick to make the reluctant player recommence the gory game of bloodshed. It is high time that USA should ponder over its skewed policy on war on terror linked with gluttonous designs and should realize that it is fighting a losing war in Afghanistan and no amount of reinforcement or American supervised development works will work. US-Nato supply lines have become vulnerable and anti-Americanism has climaxed, which cannot be reversed as long as US troops stay in Afghanistan and continue with aggressive acts. It will be in fitness of things if US led foreign forces vacate Afghanistan gracefully before it is too late for an honorable exit. US forces should exit from Afghanistan honorably  Tue, 2009-03-17 02:34, By Asif Haroon Raja. Asif Haroon Raja is a retired Brig and a security and defence analyst based in Rawalpindi. - Asian Tribune -

 
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